The Maryland politician rides forth with a new book entitled Turn This Car Around: The Roadmap to Restoring America. The transportation metaphors are nothing new in our culture but their prevalence does raise the question: How has the language of the automobile permeated our everyday psychology?

For five weeks every summer, a bunch of writers of rarely read books meet in the basement of UVA's main library to thumb through even rarer books — and to bemoan the ascendance of the e-book, which has the nerve not to be heavy, or take up tons of space, or wither and crumble over time.

Another farewell to a corporation that flourished in the olden days: the Borders bookstores chain is dead, reports the Wall Street Journal. Originally a mom-and-pop shop — it was founded in Michigan, in 1971, as a used bookstore — its profits soared in the '90s, but then the Internet happened, and Amazon.com was born, and people stopped reading.

From the Economist Book review : The Comingled Code : Open Source and Economic Development By Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman. At least theoretically, open source could also resolve the main dilemma that bedevils innovation policy. On the one hand, most inventors need incentives to keep inventing. On the other, the social value of an invention is maximised if anyone—not just those willing to pay for it—can use it. Open source seems to satisfy both conditions. Developers contribute vol

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